I am sending you there because she has put the information in a clear, easy to understand manner.... I can't improve it ~ so why try. Click on her link!

The NAIS is "National Animal Identification System". One more governmental control on how we supply food to ourselves..... basically a system to shut down small self sustaining farmers and homesteaders.

1. NAIS does NOTHING to address food safety issues from theprocessor to the consumer.it simply moves the burden from corporate meatpackers, who don’t follow the rules, to independent livestock producers.2.Missouri’s Family Farmers believe it is extremely important to ensure consumerconfidence in the safety and health of the U.S. food supply while at the sametime ensuring the economic viability of independent livestock producers.But NAISdoes not meet the needs of producers or consumers.3. The majority (>92%)of family farmers in Missouri (and the rest of the nation) are opposed toNAIS.4. The Truth About Animal ID.: Creates an undue economic burden onproducers, does not include identification of imported meats, does nothing toincrease consumer choice or confidence, expands packers ability to unfairlydiscriminate against family farmers.

There is alot of information about NAIS out there... research it yourself.

Why should you care? You have to eat too.... where does your food come from? How expensive has it become to feed your family? How wholesome are the foods you eat? Does government control too much already?

I want to be able to have a cow and milk it and drink the milk..... if the USDA has their way ..... the small homestead is history!

And I agree also! I don't vent my political views too often, but it seems that once the Gvmt gets involved & inflicts more & more of their "regulations" on our lives, we lose so much of what this country was founded upon! We were once a self-sustaining country, yet quickly we have become reliant on huge corporate decisions & other countries to survive????Our own country's food chain is diminishing & disintegrating. I truly believe, that if those of us who are caring & conscience of our earth, our sustanance...we COULD & WOULD maintain a safe & plentiful food supply in our country...it is our livelihood, our right,it is our survival! Why would we want to sabotage it...like the Gvt seems to want to do.

Thanks so much, Christina, for spreading the word about these concerns. I'm very worried we're losing many of our constitutional freedoms in backroom deals far from the public eye initially. I was completely unaware of them myself before finding this online community of bloggers, and I'm still so new to the issues. But I can see that they are foundational and a lot of our future depends on what direction these things go. I'm appalled at the FDA, at the NAIS, and at corporations such as Monsanto...all of which I had no idea about before reading blogs such as yours. We need to continue to talk about them and act to preserve our right to knowing and growing what's on our own plates, who gets to have the say so, preserving our privacy rights and our freedoms as small farmers, growers, and citizens.